Are you feeling tired or overwhelmed with chronic worry?
Are you having difficulty relaxing or concentrating? Is fear or stress robbing you of your joy? Untamed or chronic anxiety and stress can really take a toll on your life. Unfortunately we can’t always eliminate fear or anxiety from our lives but we can learn to reduce it. Anxiety & stress counseling can help you cultivate resilience, confidence and calm into your daily life.
Together we’ll work towards reducing the daily impact of anxiety and stress in your life along with identifying the steps to keep it at a manageable level into the future. The end game is relief and getting your joy in life back.
Treatment for anxiety and stress includes strategies, tools and practices based on relational neurobiology, cognitive behavioral therapy, mind-body approaches, hypnotherapy, mindfulness and self-compassion. For trauma related anxiety symptoms I use both Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and Brainspotting to reduce/extinguish your anxiety, worries and fears.
Symptoms of Anxiety & Stress:
- Chronic worries or fears
- Difficulty focusing, being present with self & others
- Worrying about what others think
- Inability to concentrate or relax
- Waiting for the other shoe to drop
- Procrastination, difficulty making decisions
- Feeling on edge
- Acting outside your values
- Physical symptoms in body due to tension
Anxiety & Stress Counseling helps you:
- Learn how your brain processes worry, fear & perceived threats
- Learn tools & strategies to reduce and manage worry, fear or perceived threats
- Decrease/extinguish trauma related anxiety, worry, fears using Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
- Identify what is essential & important to you, increase your confidence
- Increase your ability to make decisions with more ease, feel more grounded
- Feel more calm, relaxed and at ease in your body and in your day to day life
Mind-Body, Self-Compassion & Mindfulness Practices
Studies have shown that developing practices in mindfulness and self-compassion are effective tools in calming our nervous systems. When we practice mindfulness and self-compassion we can begin to interrupt our anxious mind and build new neural pathways in our brain that begin to bypass the old triggers that activated our anxiety.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and Brainspotting (BSP)
In a nutshell ART works to reprogram how painful and distressing memories and images are stored in your brain so they no longer trigger strong physical and emotional reactions. During an ART session you are not required to share the details of your story for our work together to be effective. ART is a procedural and creative therapy often effective within 1-3 sessions. For more information on ART.
Brainspotting is a brain based somatic therapy that uses eye positions and biolateral sound to locate, process and release trauma, emotional distress, anxiety and other psychological stressors. BSP is able to go deeper into the brain than talk therapy, to the unconscious mind where traumatic memories are kept. For more information on BSP.
Regression & Stress Relief Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is an effective tool to reduce stress and anxiety in your life. During hypnotherapy we use the power of your unconscious mind to shift patterns and beliefs that cause distress. It can also help relieve insomnia due to anxiety and stress.
Cognitive Behavioral Approach
The cognitive behavioral approach looks at how our thoughts influence our feelings and behaviors rather than our external experience such as people, situations, and events. This empowers us to make changes within ourselves regardless if our external situations change.
I bring to my work a care, compassion and a belief in your ability move into the life you want.
The strategies and tools I use are effective and easy to learn. With continued practice, they provide practical approaches for long-term relief from anxiety and stress, along with increasing your sense of calm and ease in your body and day to day life. Contact me if you are interested in anxiety and stress counseling. Together we will work to find you relief, resilience and a deeper sense of presence in your life and relationships.
I am seeing clients online only at this time. If you have questions I can be reached at alison@alisonwithey.com.
